Clapham High Street train station facing closure
While browsing our Twitter feed last night, Love Clapham’s heart sank when we spotted a message about the likely closure of Clapham High Street station. Fair enough it’s the one station in Clapham that virtually no one knows about, but it serves an incredibly useful purpose.
Clapham High Street overground station is a direct link from Clapham North to Victoria or London Bridge and the various stops in between. Those of you that work or get connections in these incredibly popular and important business districts of London will probably be dreading a future of Underground overcrowding.
If you head over to the Qype website you can read a bit more about this, including a rather nonsensical letter from Transport for London (TFL) that doesn’t seem to answer the questions properly. Sadly, with the 2012 transport restructure at the root of this issue, it’s unlikely that the small number of people that do use this station will have a major effect on preventing its closure.
The date for its closure will be in the coming years so won’t be immediate, but will let you know as soon as we have more info and even if it gets saved. Get in touch with your opinions on this subject below if you are one of the people that this will directly affect.
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Argh! I’ve only just discovered how useful it is for me to get to Clapham via CHS station. So annoying. Oh well… another online petition?
I work just up the road from this station which I occasionally use to get from there to see relatives in east London via Lewisham (change at Peckham!)
Back in W12 we had to fight TfL for a year to stop them bulldozing down traffic calming measures in order to force a new bus route dwn our road to serve the new estfield shopping centre. The relevance of this to you is that we won.
The bad news is that TfL will not listen to you unless they are left with absolutely no other option. The good news is that you can create that situation. You can see more at the blog we used to run the campaign – http://www.saveourstreets.blogspot.com – its not updated any more but you’ll find press cuttings, communications between us and them, our local councillors, MP and wannabe MP. You need to bring all of those political actors in and make them commit to support you.
Don’t forget there is a general election next year and a GLA one just a couple of years after that. Boris won’t want to lose just before the Olympics comes…
Good luck!
Thanks for the advice – I don’t think it’s been announced that it will definitely be closed, but it looks increasingly likely because there are big changes coming to the entire line. It’s not just about Clapham High Street station. I can’t imagine what can save it, I know that it is very under used, even in rush hour.
I’d be really interested to hear from more people that this affects directly. If there are enough, perhaps it is worth kicking up a fuss.
My understanding is that the station will not close but will no instead form part of the London Overground network. It will connect Clapham Junction to Surrey Quays giving direct access from Vlapham High Street into Hoxton, Shoreditch, etc. Going westwards it will give access to Sheperd’s Bush etc.
Read more here under Wetsren Extension:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_London_Line
Jack, saying the trains are ‘underused’ is a bit rich – in the morning peaks they are usually full and in the evening peak they are usually overcrowded to bursting, so much so that people wanting to board at Battersea Park are unable to do so! In my experience they are well-loaded a lot of the time especially late at night.
What needs challenging is TfL mutton-headed thinking – it’s not an either/or argument as London Victoria, Wandsworth Road, Clapham High Street, Denmark Hill and Peckham Rye could all be served by trains going on to Lewisham and Kent.
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Does anyone know if the plans to close the London Bridge – Victoria line are going ahead?
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Hi – i campaign on transport issues for Clapham.
Clapham High Street Stations is NOT going to be closed, the problem is that TfL wants to axe the Victoria service to have the orbital only East London Line service to Clapham Junction. Getting rid of all Central London trains from Clapham High Street will lead to even more overcrowding on the Tube at Clapham North.
So the Clapham Transport Users’ Group, Clapham Society and Kate Hoey MP are fighting to keep Clapham High Street’s link to Victoria.